CV of Ferdinando Boero Contacts: Ferdinando Boero DiSTeBA (Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali) Università del Salento 73100 Lecce Italy Voice: -39 0832 298619 Handphone: 3332144956 Fax: -39 0832 298702 or 298626 email: [email protected]

1951, February 13th, born in Genova, Italy. Current position: Full Professor of Zoology and Anthropology at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies of the University of Salento. Associate at the Istituto di Scienze Marine of the National Research Council

Appointments

1988-today, responsible of the Museum and Station of Marine Biology of Porto Cesareo. 1990- today, Member, or past member, of the editorial board of the journals: Advances in Limonology and Oceanography Aquatic Biology Aquatic Invasions Cahiers de Biologie Marine Ecology Letters Italian Journal of Zoology (editor in chief since 2008) Journal of Evolutionary Biology F1000 Research Oebalia Thalassia Salentina 1995-today, member of the Council of the "Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare" (National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Sciences) (CoNISMa). 1995-today, director of the CoNISMA Research Unit of Lecce. 1996-1998, Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Lecce. 1998-2004, Chair of the Littoral Environments Committee of the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. 2007-2013, Chair of the Biological Resources Committee of the International Commission for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. 1998-2004, Secretary General of the Società Italiana di Ecologia. 2004-2008, Member of the council of the Società Italiana di Ecologia, 2004-today, Member of the council of the Unione Zoologica Italiana. 2000-2008, responsible, with L. Ruggiero and A. Varola, of the Museum of the Environment of the University of Salento 2003-2008, Responsible of a node of the European Network of Excellence in Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MARBEF). 2004-today, member of the board of the Commission for the Fauna of Italy 2007-2010, member of the Executive Board of CoNISMa 2007-today, member of the steering committee of the European Network of Marine Institutes and Stations (MARS) 2008-2011, Member of the scientific council of the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. 2009-today Member of Faculty of 1000 2011-today Member of the European Marine Board. 2011-today Member of GEV (Gruppo Esperti Valutazione) of ANVUR (Agenzia Nazionale per la Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca), with the role of president of a sub group of evaluation experts (SUB-GEV) of the Area 5 (BIOLOGY).

2013- today: Member of of the European Academies Scientific Advisory Council as a representative of the Accademia dei Lincei for the preparation of the document: Marine Sustainability in an age of changing oceans and seas; 2014-today: Member of the G7 Academies for the preparation of a document on the ocean as a discussion basing at the last Berlin G7 Meeting: Future of the Ocean: impact of human activities on marine systems 2013-today: Member of the scientific council of the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 2013-today: Member of the European Academies Science Advisory Council 2014-today: Member of the Scientific Council of Associazione Pro-Natura 2014-today: Member of the Scientific Council of the World Wildlife Fund-Italy 2015-today: Member of the Scientific Council of Coldiretti 2015-today: Vicepresident of Marevivo 2015-today: Vicepresident of Fondo Ambiente Italia – Lecce Section

Scientific activity

1. Author of 129 scientific articles on ISI journals; 104 on non-ISI journals; 44 editorials, letters, book reviews; 20 book chapters; 13 authored books; 9 edited books that, according to Google Scholar, June 9 2016 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Syro5DUAAAAJ&hl=en) received 6825 citations, h-index 45. 2. Top Italian Scientist according to the Virtual Italian Academy 3. Keynote speaker at meetings of: Società Italiana di Biologia Marina, European Marine Biology Symposium, Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée, International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR), Congress of the Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy, International Conference of Coelenterate Biology, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Unione Zoologica Italiana, Associazione Italiana di Oceanografia e Limnologia, Società Italiana di Biogeografia, Società Italiana di Ecologia, British Ecological Society, Mares Conference. 4. Organiser of sessions at the meetings of: American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, European Society of Evolutionary Biology, INTECOL, Società Italiana di Ecologia, Unione Zoologica Italiana, MarBEF. 5. Field work (using SCUBA) in: the whole Mediterranean, California, Sea of Cortez, Papua New Guinea. 6. Member of: Unione Zoologica Italiana, Società Italiana di Ecologia, Società Italiana di Biologia Marina, Associazione Italiana di Oceanografia e Limnologia, Gruppo "Gadio" di Ecologia di Base, Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée, Hydrozoan Society, Linnean Society of London, European Society of Evolutionary Biology, American Society of Naturalists. 7. Collaborator or coordinator of many research projects supported by local, national and international funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations. Among the most noticeable ones: The EU projects Jason, Sesame, Perseus, Vectors of Change, Med-Jellyrisk, CoCoNet (coordinator) The PEET project (Partnership for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy) of the National Science Foundation of the US Three Projects of Relevant National Interest (PRIN) of the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (Coordinator) An INTERREG Italy-Greece project (Coordinator) The Flagship Project RITMARE

Awards and special mentions

2004, Prize Renoir of the Region Apulia 2005, Manley Bendall Prize, Medaille Albert Premier for Oceanography of the Institut Océanographique de Paris 2007, Prize Il Sallentino for the Sciences 2010, First Absolute Prize at the Sea Heritage Best Communication Campaign. 2010, First Prize in the section Scientific Research at the Sea Heritage Best Communication Campaign.

2012, Faculty Member of the year 2011 for the Faculty of Ecology of Faculty of 1000 2013, Faculty Member of the year 2012 for the Faculty of Ecology of Faculty of 1000 2014, Outstanding Faculty Member of the year 2013 of Faculty of 1000 2015, Outstanding Faculty Member of the year 2014 of Faculty of 1000 2016, Tridente d’oro 2017, medal for the Physical and Natural Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Italy

My work has been mentioned by: Book of the year 1995 of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Mc Graw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 1999, Mickey Mouse Journal (in Italian), Frank Zappa (YCDTOSAM VOL VI: Lonesome cowboy Nando), The New York Times, Time Magazine (with a cover story and an online article). Honorary taxa: Boeromedusidae Bouillon, 1995 (Cnidaria) Boeromedusa Bouillon, 1995 (Cnidaria) Sphaerosyllis boeroi Musco, Cynar, Giangrande, 2005 (Annelida) Tethia boeroi Sarà, 1992 (Porifera)

Outreach and third mission

Having had responsibility in the direction of two scientific museums, I have bridged scientific achievements with the communication of their outcome. Museums are only a part of my communication program. I have participated to innumerable TV shows, for Italian and foreign TVs, including the national televisions of Japan, France, Austria, Germany, Russia. I have written three general books: Ecologia della bellezza (The ecology of beauty), Ecologia ed evoluzione della religione (The ecology and evolution of religion) and Economia senza natura. La grande truffa (Economy without nature. The great swindle) to show to the general public that the enforcement of an ecological and evolutionary point of view can help the understanding and management of human problems, since we are part of Nature. With the campaign Occhio alla Medusa I have launched a project on the involvement of citizens in providing information on the presence of jellyfish throughout the Mediterranean Sea. Citizen science is a powerful tool to involve people in research activities and leads to a better consciousness of the general public. Through my museum activities I have involved a whole group of artists to convey my messages through sculpture, painting, models, dioramas etc. Concepts are better explained with beauty. As Chair of two Committees of the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) I joined missions to Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Turkey, with meetings with local politicians, including Ministries. I have helped the United Nations in enforcing an environmental policy in Albania, and I have participated to many initiatives in Italian Ministries, aimed at bridging gaps between the scientific community and decision makers. Similar initiatives have been pursued during my activity in the European Network of Excellence in Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, and in the European Marine Board. In 2001, at the University of Salento, I have organized, together with prof. Giampalo Cò, the series of conferences “Semplice e Complesso”, aimed at bridging cultural gaps within the members of the Faculty of Sciences. In 2009, together with prof. Giampaolo Cò and prof. Livio Ruggiero, I have organized a series of conferences to celebrate the impact of Darwininan thinking on the manifold branches of Culture. I have been invited to write articles dealing with marine issues for the newspapers Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Nuovo Quotidiano di Puglia, Il Secolo XIX and for the magazines Internazionale, Rolling Stone, La Contraddizione, and Le Scienze. I have been interviewed by the main media of the world, from the New York Times, to the Washington Post and Time Magazine and by innumerable newspapers, magazines, tv programs. I have started a collaboration with the portal of the Enciclopedia Treccani (http://www.treccani.it/webtv/esperti/boero_ferdinando), explaining basic concepts through posted videos.

Organization of meetings, congresses, and workshops

I organize meetings since 1982, when I participated to the organization of a national meeting of the Italian Society of Marine Biology at Massa Lubrense-Sorrento.

In 1985 I organized, at Ischia, the first workshop of the Hydrozoan Society, organizing also the workshops in Blanes, Roscoff, Bodega Bay, Porto Cesareo. I have organized the meeting of the Zoological Union of Italy, of the European Network of Excellence on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, and of the National Interuniversity Consortium of Marine Sciences. As chair of CIESM committees, I have organized the following workshops: Scientific design and monitoring of Mediterranean marine protected areas (location: Porto Cesareo, Italia, 1999) Gelatinous zooplankton outreaks: theory and practice (location: Napoli, Italia, 2001) Erosion littorale en Méditerranée: dynamique, diagnostic et remèdes (location: Tangers, Morocco, 2002) Climate warming and related changes in Mediterranean Marine Biota (location: Helgoland, Germany, 2008) Marine Extinctions - patterns and processes (location: Valencia, 2012) I have organized the meeting Euroceans 2014 as an Italian representative in the European Marine Board.

Main concepts developed by F. Boero Besides reporting about facts in many papers, I have always tried to contribute to the general understanding of biological phenomena. These are the main concepts I have developed, stemming from my experience on facts:

A general model of ecosystem functioning as the result of three main fluxes, usually kept separate by theoretical ecology: Extraspecific fluxes: biogeochemical cycles Intraspecific fluxes: life cycles and life histories Interspecific fluxes: food webs

Benthic pelagic coupling is not only a matter of biogeochemistry, it is a matter of life cycles. In coastal waters, many plankters spend long periods in the sediments, as resting stages. The main compartments of marine biota (plankton, benthos, nekton) are not separated and must be studied as a whole.

Seasonality is not only a matter of plankton, also benthic communities are subjected to strong seasonality, with alternation in the dominance of species.

The biomass of a given ecosystem tends to be stable, but the contributions of the various species changes with time, both as fluctuations (linked to seasonality) and as variations (actual changes in biodiversity composition).

Irregular and episodic events are the key of change in ecological systems: we are attracted by regularities but change is driven by irregularities.

The sites of deep water formation of the Mediterranean Sea (the Gulf of Lions and the Gulf of Trieste) host biota of cold water affinity that are threatened by global warming. These “cold spots” of biodiversity are the most sensitive areas of the world to climate change and the species restricted to these localities run the risk of extinction due to global warming.

Marine canyons, with their upwelling currents, are further contributors to benthic pelagic coupling, supplementing the role of the “cold engines” and acting as “units of ecosystem functioning” by driving nutrient rich deep water, and propagules, to the coastal systems, triggering plankton blooms.

Ecology is a historical discipline and cannot be modeled in a predictive way, with algorithms: the key to understand the environment is natural history (with the modern tools of experimental ecology and biology).

Ecology and evolution must go together, there is nothing like stability in evolution and this concept is tenuous also in ecology. Since the time frames are different, change is appreciated in different ways.

Evolutionary novelties are linked to mutations during ontogeny, according to Arthur’s inverted cone. The earlier in development the mutation, the greater the difference of the descendant from the ancestor. Complex

life cycles are nested inverted cones that can also change independently from each other (inconsistent evolution).

Most milestones of metazoan evolution are in the Cnidaria: bilaterality, germ layer differentiation in ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm, coelom, chitinous skeleton, calcium-based skeleton, metamery, central nervous system.

Evolutionary novelties stem from the coupling of paedo- and peramorphosis, as exemplified by the case of medusa re-expression in Obelia.

The Popperian paradigm of falsification calls scientists to produce universal statements (that can be only falsified and cannot be verified) whereas historical disciplines (such as ecology and evolution) are based on existential statements (that can be only verified and cannot be falsified). Gradual evolution, for instance, falsifies the universality of punctuate evolution, but not its existence (and viceversa).

The cells of ecosystem functioning as conservation and management units, considering both biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

The study of biodiversity Taxonomy is the basic science of biodiversity. The main product of taxonomy is the revision of taxa and the description of new taxa.

New taxa Families: Octocannoidae Bouillon, Boero & Seghers,1991 Tiaropsidae Boero, Bouillon & Danovaro, 1987 Genera: AntohebellaBoero, Bouillon & Kubota, 1998 Fraseroscyphus Boero & Bouillon, 1993 Wuvula Bouillon, Boero & Seghers 1988 Zanclella Boero & Hewitt, 1992 Species: Bythotiara metscnikovii Bouillon, Boero & Seghers, 1988 Cytaeis adherens Bouillon, Boero & Seghers, 1991 Halocoryne frasca Boero, Bouilon & Gravili, 2000 Halocoryne pirainoid Boero, Bouilon & Gravili, 2000 Phialella zappai Boero, 1987 Solmaris quadrata Bouillon; Boero & Seghers, 1991 Sympagohydra tuuli Piraino, Bluhm, Gradinger, Boero, 2009 Wuvula fabietti Bouillon, Boero & Seghers 1988 Zanclea bomala Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea divergens Boero, Bouilon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea fanella Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea giancarloi Boero, Bouilon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea gilii Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea hirohitoi Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea medusopolypata Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclea retractilis Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclella bryozoophila Boero & Hewitt, 1992 Zanclella diabolica Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Zanclella glomboides Boero, Bouillon & Gravili, 2000 Pelagia benovici Piraino, Aglieri, Scorrano, Boero, 2014 Aurelia relicta Scorrano, Aglieri, Boero, Dawson Piraino, 2016

Another task of taxonomy is the publication of faunas. In 2004, I have published a Monograph on the Hydrozoa of the Mediterranean Sea (Bouillon J., M.D. Medel, F. Pagès, J.M. Gili, F. Boero, C. Gravili. 2004. Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa. Scientia Marina 68 (Suppl. 2): 1-449) and, in 2006, a Monograph on the Hydrozoa of the World (Bouillon J., C. Gravili, F. Pagès, J-M. Gili, Boero F. 2006. An Introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Musèum national d'Histoire naturelle. PARIS: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (FRANCE) 194, 598 pp). The main tool for taxonomy is taxonomic literature. By joining Jean Bouillon’s collection of reprints and monographs with mine, the largest thematic library on Hydrozoan taxonomy has been assembled. The library has been digitized and indexed in a database as a product of the PEET project on the Hydrozoa. The pdf files of papers and monographs have been linked to the bibliographic entries. Cinzia Gravili is keeping the

database updated in real time, providing a crucial tool to all Hydrozoan taxonomists of the world. The demise of taxonomy has been the object of several commentaries, the most successful one (The study of species in the era of biodiversity: a tale of stupidity) has been downloaded more than 6000 times and has become a sort of manifesto for taxonomists.

Key words Marine biodiversity, Hydrozoan Taxonomy, Marine Biology, Marine Ecology, Ecosystem functioning, Marine Protected Areas, Climate change, Evolutionary biology, Developmental biology, Museology, Communication Science, Philosophy of science

Teaching

I teach undergraduates since 1987, when I was appointed Associate Professor of Zoology at the Università degli Studi di Lecce, now University of Salento. I have courses both in Biological Sciences and in Environmental Sciences, teaching mainly Zoology and Marine Biology. For some years I have taught Scientific Communication for the Course in Communications Science. I am member of the teaching staff of graduate courses since the institution of the course in Ecologia Fondamentale. I have taught also in the Quarto Settore of ISUFI. I have graduated a high number of students, who made their thesis under my supervision. Former students of mine now are full professors, like Giorgio Bavestrello, the most prominent one being Roberto Danovaro, presently President of the Zoological Station of Naples. I have founded the Laurea Magistrale course “Coastal and Marine Biology and Ecology”, the first course of the University of Salento to be fully given in English. I waive my right to privacy and I authorize consultation of the evaluation scores made every year by the students of my courses. As University professor I am aware that my contribution must be creative and must stimulate the interest and enthusiasm of the students, being based on my experience of researcher.

Concluding remarks

The above fields of interest might appear disconnected. But they are not so. They constitute an integrated approach to the study of life, having the organism at its centre. The hyperspecialisation of research led to prodigious progress in single disciplines, but increased the gaps among them. The result is a world of specialists that do not interact with each other, and are away from the public. My view of science implies, of course, a horizontal approach defining a main field of interest (for me it is Hydrozoan taxonomy, ecology, and evolution) but it requires also a vertical approach connecting as many disciplines as possible. This requires strong theoretical efforts towards the “discovery” of the conceptual continuity that links all types of knowledge. I call it “Natural History” and humans are part of it.

Publications by F. Boero Publications by F. Boero on ISI Journals

1. Boero F. 1980. Hebella parasitica (Ciamician, 1879) (Cnidaria, Hydroida) a thecate polyp producing an anthomedusa. Marine Biology 59: 133-136. 2. Boero F. 1981. Osservazioni ecologiche sugli idroidi della fascia a mitili della Riviera Ligure di Levante. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 22: 107-117. 3. Boero F. 1981. Systematics and ecology of the hydroid population of two Posidonia oceanica meadows. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology 2 (3): 181-197. 4. Boero F. 1984. The ecology of marine hydroids and effects of environmental factors: a review. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology 5 (2): 93-118. 5. Boero F., Chessa L., Chimenz C., Fresi E. 1985. The zonation of epiphytic hydroids on the leaves of some Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile beds in the Central Mediterranean. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology 6 (1): 27-33. 6. Boero F., Fresi E. 1986. Zonation and evolution of a rocky bottom hydroid community. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology 7 (2): 123- 150. 7. Boero F., Balduzzi A., Bavestrello G., Caffa B., Cattaneo-Vietti R. 1986. Population dynamics of Eudendrium glomeratum (Cnidaria: Anthomedusae) on the Portofino Promontory (Ligurian Sea). Marine Biology 92: 81-85. 8. Boero F. 1987. Life cycles of Phialella zappai n. sp., Phialella fragilis and Phialella sp. (Cnidaria, Leptomedusae, Phialellidae) from Central California. Journal of Natural History 21: 465-480. 9. Boero F., Sarà M. 1987. Motile sexual stages and evolution of Leptomedusae (Cnidaria). Bollettino di Zoologia 54: 131-139. 10. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1989. The life cycles of Octotiara russelli and Stomotoca atra (Cnidaria, Anthomedusae, Pandeida).

Zoologica Scripta 18 (1): 1-7. 11. Arillo A., Bavestrello G., Boero F. 1989. Circannual cycle and oxygen consumption in Eudendrium glomeratum (Cnidaria, Anthomedusae): studies on a shallow water population. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology, 10 (4): 289-301. 12. Balduzzi A., Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Cattaneo-Vietti R., Pansini M., Sarà M. 1989. The suspension-feeder community of a Mediterranean sea cave. In: J. D. Ros (Ed.). Topics in Marine Biology. Scientia Marina 53 (2): 387-395. 13. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravili C. 1991. The life cycle of Hydrichthys mirus (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthomedusae: Pandeidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 101: 189-199. 14. Boero F., Cicogna F., Pessani D., Pronzato R. 1991. In situ observations on contraction behaviour and diel activity of Halcampoides purpurea var. mediterranea (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) in a marine cave. P.S.Z.N. I: Marine Ecology 12 (3): 185-192. 15. Bouillon J., Boero F., Fraschetti S. 1991. The life cycle of Laodicea indica Browne 1906 (Laodiceidae, Hydromedusae, Cnidaria). Hydrobiologia 216/217: 151-157. 16. Bouillon J., Boero F., Seghers G. 1991. Notes additionnelles sur les méduses de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) IV. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 32: 387-411. 17. Schmid V., Schuchert P., Piraino S., Boero F. 1992. The mesogloea (extrecellular matrix) of hydrozoans can be species-specific for cell attachment and cell migration: a new tool for taxonomy? In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna, J.M. Gili & R. G. Hughes (Eds). Aspects of Hydrozoan Biology. Scientia Marina 56 (2-3): 131-136. 18. Piraino F., Bouillon J., Boero F. 1992. Halocoryne epizoica (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), a hydroid that bites.In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna, J.M. Gili & R. G. Hughes (Eds). Aspects of Hydrozoan Biology. Scientia Marina 56 (2-3): 141-147. 19. Bouillon J., Boero F., Cicogna F., Gili J. M 20. ., Hughes R. G. 1992. Non-siphonophoran Hydrozoa, what are we talking about? In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna, J.M. Gili & R. G. Hughes (Eds). Aspects of Hydrozoan Biology. Scientia Marina 56 (2-3): 279-284. 21. Boero F., Hewitt C. 1992. A hydrozoan, Zanclella bryozoophila n.g., n.sp. (Zancleidae), symbiotic with a bryozoan. Canadian Journal of Zoology 70: 1645-1651. 22. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1993. Zoogeography and life cycle patterns of Mediterranean hydromedusae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 48: 239-266. 23. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1993 Fraseroscyphus sinuosus n. gen. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Sertulariidae), an epiphytic hydroid with a specialized clinging organ. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71 (5): 1061-1064. 24. Piraino S., Todaro C., Geraci S., Boero F. 1994. Ecology of the bivalve-inhabiting hydroid Eugymnanthea inquilina (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Eirenidae) in the coastal sounds of Taranto (Ionian Sea). Marine Biology 118: 695-703. 25. Fanelli G., Piraino S., Belmonte G., Geraci S., Boero F. 1994. Human predation along Apulian rocky coasts (SE Italy): desertification caused by Lithophaga lithophaga (Mollusca) fisheries. Marine Ecology Progress Series 110: 1-8. 26. Boero F. 1994. Fluctuations and variations in coastal marine environments. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 15 (1): 3-25. 27. Falugi C., Morri C., Bouillon J., Boero F. 1994. Localization of some neurotransmitters during development in hydroidomedusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Tissue Cell 26 (4): 523-538. 28. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravier N. 1995. The life cycle of Pteroclava krempfi (Hydrozoa, Cladocorynidae), with some notes on Asyncoryne philippina (Asyncorynidae). Scientia Marina 59 (1): 65-76. 29. Boero F., Bouillon J., Piraino S. 1996. Classification and phylogeny in the Hydroidomedusae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Scientia Marina 60: 7-16. 30. Gravili C., Boero F., Bouillon J. 1996. Zanclea species (Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae) from the Mediterranean. Scientia Marina 60: 99-108. 31. Piraino S., Boero F., Aeschbach B., Schmid V. 1996. Reversing the life cycle: medusae transforming into polyps and cell transdifferentiation in Turritopsis nutricula (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Biological Bulletin 190 (3): 302-312. 32. Boero F. 1996. Episodic events: their relevance in ecology and evolution. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 17: 237-250. 33. Boero F., Belmonte G., Fanelli G., Piraino S., Rubino F. 1996. The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11 (4): 177-180. 34. Boero F., Gravili C., Denitto F., Miglietta M. P., Bouillon J. 1997. The rediscovery of Codonorchis octaedrus (Hydroidomedusae, Anthomedusae, Pandeidae), with an update of the Mediterranean hydroidomedusan biodiversity. Italian Journal of Zoology 64: 359-365. 35. Belmonte G., Miglietta A., Rubino F., Boero F. 1997. Morphological convergence of resting stages of planktonic organisms: a review. Hydrobiologia 355: 159-165. 36. Boero F., Gravili C., Pagliara P., Piraino S., Bouillon J., Schmid V. 1998. The cnidarian premises of metazoan evolution: from triploblasty, to coelom formation, to metamery. Italian Journal of Zoology 65: 5-9. 37. Marcus N., Boero F. 1998. Production and Plankton Community Dynamics in Coastal Aquatic Systems: The Importance of Benthic-Pelagic Coupling and The Forgotten Role Of Life Cycles. Limnology and Oceanography 43 (5): 763-768. 38. Pati A.C., Belmonte G., Ceccherelli V.U., Boero F. 1999. The inactive temporary component: an unexplored fraction of meiobenthos. Marine Biology 134: 419-427. 39. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravili C. 2000. A survey of Zanclea, Halocoryne and Zanclella (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Anthomedusae, Zancleidae) with description of new species. Italian Journal of Zoology 67: 93-124. 40. Rubino F., G. Belmonte, A. M. Miglietta, S. Geraci & F. Boero, 2000. Resting stages of plankton in recent north Adriatic sediments. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 21: 263-286. 41. Gravili C., Pagliara R., Vervoort W., Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. Trends in hydroidomedusan research from 1911 to 1997. Scientia Marina 64 (suppl. 1): 23-29. 42. Miglietta M.P., Della Tommasa L., Denitto F., Gravili C., Pagliara P., Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. Approaches to the ethology of hydroids and medusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Scientia Marina 64 (suppl. 1): 63-71. 43. Pagliara P., Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. Photosynthetic planulae and planktonic hydroids: contrasting strategies of propagule survival. Scientia Marina 64 (suppl. 1): 173-178. 44. Faucci A., Boero F. 2000. Structure of an epiphytic hydroid community on Cystoseira at two sites of different wave exposure. Scientia Marina 64 (suppl. 1): 255-264. 45. Della Tommasa L., Belmonte G., Palanques A., Puig P., Boero F. 2000. Resting stages in a submarine canyon: a component of shallow-deep-sea coupling? Hydrobiologia 440: 249-260.

46. Fraschetti S., Bianchi C. N., Terlizzi A., Fanelli G., Morri C., Boero F. 2001. Spatial variability and human disturbance in shallow subtidal hard substrate assemblages: a regional approach. Marine Ecology Progress Series 212: 1-12. 47. Terlizzi A., Fraschetti S., Gianguzza P., Faimali M., Boero F. 2001. Environmental impact of antifouling technologies: state of art and perspectives. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 11: 311-317. 48. Guidetti P., Boero F. 2001. Occurrence of the Mediterranean parrotfish Sparisoma cretense (Perciformes: Scaridae) in sout- eastern Apulia (south-east italy). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of U.K. 81: 717-718. 49. Fraschetti S., Giangrande A., Terlizzi A., Miglietta M.P., Della Tommasa L., Boero F. 2002. Spatio-temporal variation of hydroids and polychaetes associated with Cystoseira amentacea (Fucales: phaeophyceae). Marine Biology 140: 949-957. 50. Guidetti P., Boero F., Dulcic J. 2002. Mass mortality of gilt sardine, Sardinella aurita (Clupeidae), in the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. Cybium 26 (4): 317-319. 51. Guidetti P., Fanelli G., Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Boero F. 2002. Coastal fish indicate human-induced changes in the Mediterranean littoral. Marine Environmental Research 53: 77-94. 52. Piraino S., Fanelli G., Boero F. 2002. Variability of species’ roles in marine communities: change of paradigms for conservation priorities. Marine Biology 140: 1067-1074. 53. Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Micheli F., Benedetti Cecchi L., Boero F. 2002. marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea: objectives, effectiveness and monitoring. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 23, Suppl 1: 190-200. 54. Rubino F., Moscatello S., Saracino O., Fanelli G., Belmonte G., Boero F. 2002. Plankton-derived resting stages in marine coastal sediments along the Salento Peninsula (Apulia, South-Eastern Italy). P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 23, Suppl 1: 329-339. 55. Terlizzi A., Fraschetti S., Guidetti P., Boero F. 2002. The effects of sewage discharge on shallow hard substrate sessile assemblages. Marine Pollution Bulletin 44: 544-550 56. Guidetti P., Terlizzi A., Fraschetti S., Boero F. 2002. Spatio-temporal variability in Fish assemblages associated with coralligenous formations in south eastern Apulia (SE Italy). Italian Journal of Zoology 69 (4): 325-331. 57. Guidetti P. TerlizziA., Fraschetti S. Boero F. 2003. Changes in Mediterranean rocky-reef fish assemblages exposed to sewage pollution. Marine Ecology Progress Series 253: 269-278. 58. Piraino S., De Vito D., Bouillon J., Boero F. 2003. Larval necrophilia: the odd life cycle of a pandeid hydrozoan in the Weddell Sea shelf. Polar Biology 26: 178-185. 59. Terlizzi A., Scuderi D., Fraschetti S., Guidetti P., Boero F. 2003. Molluscs on subtidal cliffs: patterns of spatial distribution. Journal of Marine Biological Association of UK 83, 165-172. 60. Terlizzi A., Bevilacqua S., Fraschetti S., Boero F. 2003. Taxonomic sufficiency and the increasing insufficiency of taxonomic expertise. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46 (5), 556-561. 61. Fraschetti S., Giangrande A., Terlizzi A., Boero,F. 2003. Pre- and post-settlement events in hard- and soft-bottom community dynamics. Oceanologica Acta 25 (6), 285-296. 62. Guidetti P., Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Boero F. 2003. Distribution patterns of sea urchins and barrens in shallow Mediterranean rocky reefs impacted by the illegal fishery of the rock-boring mollusc Lithophaga lithophaga. Marine Biology 143: 1135-1142. 63. Carlà E.C., Pagliara P., Piraino S., Boero F., Dini L. 2003. Morphological and ultrastructural analysis of Turritopsis nutricula during life cycle reversal. Tissue Cell 35: 213-222. 64. Guidetti P., Terlizzi A., Boero F. 2004. Effects of the edible sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus, fishery along the Apulian rocky coast (SE Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Fisheries Research 66: 287-297. 65. Guidetti P., Boero F. 2004. Desertification of mediterranean rocky reefs caused by date mussel, Lithophaga lithophaga (Mollusca: Bivalvia), fishery: effects on adult and juvenile abundance of a temperate fish. Marine Pollution Bulletin 48: 978- 982. 66. Moscatello S., Rubino F., Saracino O., Fanelli G., Belmonte G., Boero F. 2004. Plankton biodiversity around the Salento Peninsula (South East italy): an integrated water/sediment approach. Scientia Marina 68 (suppl. 1): 85-102. 67. Della Tommasa L., Danovaro R., Belmonte G., Boero F. 2004. Resting stage abundance in the biogenic fraction of surface sediments from the deep mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina 68 (suppl. 1): 103-111. 68. Boero F., Belmonte G., Bussotti S., Fanelli G., S. Fraschetti S., A. Giangrande A., Gravili C., Guidetti P., Pati A., Piraino S., Rubino F., Saracino O., Schmich J., Terlizzi A., Geraci S. 2004. From biodiversity and ecosystem functioning to the roots of ecological complexity. Ecological Complexity 2: 101-109. 69. Guidetti P., Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Boero F. 2004. Effects of Desertification caused by Lithophaga lithophaga (Mollusca) fishery on littoral fish assemblages along rocky coasts of southeastern Italy. Conservation Biology 18 (5): 1417-1423. 70. Piraino S., De Vito D., Schmich J., Bouillon J., Boero F. 2004. Reverse Development in Cnidaria. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82 (11): 1748-1754. 71. Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Bussotti S., Guarnieri G., D’Ambrosio P., Boero F. 2005. Conservation of Mediterranean seascapes: analyses of existing protection schemes. Marine Environmental Research 59: 309-332. 72. Guidetti P., Bussotti S., Boero F. 2005. Evaluating the effects of protection on fish predators and sea urchins in shallow artificial rocky habitats: a case study in the northern Adriatic Sea. Mar. Env. Res. 59: 333-348. 73. Guidetti P., Verginella L, Viva C., Odorico R., Boero F. 2005. Protection effects on fish assemblages, and comparison of two visual-census techniques in shallow artificial rocky habitats in the northern Adriatic Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK 85 (2): 247-255 74. Boero F., Bouillon J., Piraino S. 2005. The role of Cnidaria in evolution and ecology. Italian Journal of Zoology 72: 65-71. 75. Puce S., B. Calcinai, G. Bavestrello, C. Cerrano, C. Gravili, F. Boero. 2005. Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) symbiotic with Porifera: a review. Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 26: 73-81. 76. Govindarajan A., F. Boero, K. Halanych. 2006. Pylogenetic analysis with multiple markers indicates repeated loss of the adult medusa stage in Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 38: 820-834. 77. De Vito D., S. Piraino, J. Schmich, J. Bouillon, F. Boero. 2006. Evidence of reverse development in Leptomedusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): the case of Laodicea undulata (Forbes and Goodsir, 1851) Marine Biology 149 (2): 339-346 78. Bevilacqua S., A. Terlizzi, S. Fraschetti, G.F. Russo, F. Boero. 2006. Mitigating human disturbance: can protection influence trajectories of recovery in benthic assemblages? Journal of Animal Ecology. 75: 908-920. 79. Bavestrello G., S. Puce, C. Cerrano, E. Zocchi, Boero F. 2006. The problem of seasonality of benthic hydroids in temperate waters. Chemistry and Ecology. 22: 197-205

80. Bussotti S., A. Terlizzi, S. Fraschetti, G. Belmonte, Boero F. 2006. Spatial and temporal variability of sessile benthos in shallow Mediterranean marine caves. Marine Ecology Progress Series 325: 109-119 81. Fraschetti S., A. Terlizzi, S. Bevilacqua, Boero F. 2006. The distribution of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from micro and macro-scale: spatial patterns on habitat-forming algae. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 339: 148-158 82. Stabili, L., Gravili C., Piraino S., Boero F., Alifano P., 2006. Vibrio harveyi associated with Aglaophenia octodonta (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Microbial Ecology 52 : 603-608. 83. Schmich J., Kraus Y., De Vito D., Graziussi D., Boero F., Piraino S. 2007. Induction of reverse development in two marine hydrozoans. International Journal of Developmental Biology 51 (1): 45-56 84. Puce S., Bavestrello G., Di Camillo C.G., Boero F. 2007. Symbiotic relationships between hydroids and bryozoans. Symbiosis 44 (1-3): 137-143 85. Boero F., Bucci C., Colucci A.M.R., C. Gravili, L. Stabili. 2007. Obelia (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Campanulariidae): a microphagous, filter-feeding medusa. Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 28 (suppl 1): 178-183 86. Boero F.,E. Bonsdorff. 2007. A conceptual framework for marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 28 (Suppl. 1): 134-145 87. De Nitto F., M.P. Miglietta, F. Boero. 2007. Life cycle of Bougainvillia nana (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Bougainvilliidae) from Italy, including a discussion of Bougainvillia muscus in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U. K. 87: 853–857 88. Boero F., Schierwater B., Piraino S. 2007, Cnidarian milestones in metazoan evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47 (5): 693-700 89. Gravili C., Bouillon J., D'Elia A., Boero F. 2007. The life cycle of Gastroblasta raffaelei (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae, Campanulariidae) and a review of the genus Gastroblasta. Italian Journal of Zoology 74, 4: 395-403 90. Guidetti P, Milazzo M, Bussotti S, Molinari A, Murenu M, Pais A, Spanò N, Balzano R, Agardy T, Boero F, Carrada G, Cattaneo-Vietti R, Cau A, Chemello R, Greco S, Manganaro A, Notarbartolo di Sciara G, Russo G F, Tunesi L. 2008. Italian Marine Reserve effectiveness: does enforcement matter? Biological Conservation 141: 699-709 91. Miglietta A.M., Belmonte G., Boero F. 2008. A summative evaluation of science learning: a case study of the Marine Biology Museum “Pietro Parenzan” (South East Italy). Visitor Studies 11 (2): 213-219 92. Fraschetti S., A. Terlizzi, F. Boero. 2008. How Many habitats are there in the sea (and where)? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 366 (1-2): 109-115 93. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravili C., Miglietta M.P., Parsons T., Piraino S. 2008. Gelatinous plankton: irregularities rule the world (sometimes). Marine Ecology Progress Series 356: 299-310 94. Stabili L., C. Gravili, S. M. Tredici, S. Piraino, A. Talà, F. Boero, P. Alifano. 2008. Epibiotic Vibrio Luminous Bacteria Isolated from Some Hydrozoa and Bryozoa Species. Microbial Ecology 56: 625-636 95. De Vito D, Boero F, Di Camillo CG, Megina C, Piraino S. 2008. Redescription of the zooxanthellate Eudendrium moulouyensis (Eudendriidae: Hydrozoa) from the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U. K. 88, (8): 1655-1662 96. Piraino S, Bluhm BA, Gradinger R, Boero F. 2008. Sympagohydra tuuli gen. nov and sp nov (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) a cool hydroid from the Arctic sea ice. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K. 88 (8): 1637-1641 97. Gravili C., P. D’Ambrosio, C. Di Camillo, G. Renna, J. Bouillon, F. Boero. 2008. Clytia hummelincki (Hydroidomedusae, Leptomedusae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U. K. 88 (8): 1547-1553. 98. Bevilacqua S., Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Boero F. 2009. The use of taxonomic distinctness indices in assessing patterns of biodiversity in modular organisms. Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 30: 151-163. 99. Puce S., Bavestrello, G., Di Camillo, CG., Boero F. 2009. Long-term changes in hydroid (Cnidaria Hydrozoa) assemblages: effect of Mediterranean warming? Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 30 (3): 313-326 100. Boero F. 2009. Recent innovations in marine biology. Marine Ecology-An evolutionary perspective 30 (suppl. 1): 1-12 101. Mastrototaro F., D’Onghia G., Corriero G., Matarrese A., Maiorano P., Panetta P., Gherardi M., Longo C., Rosso A., Sciuto F., Sanfilippo R., Gravili C., Boero F., Taviani M., Tursi A. 2010. Biodiversity of the white coral bank off Cape Santa Maria di Leuca (Mediterranean Sea): an update. Deep-Sea Research II 57: 412-430. 102. Stabili, L., Gravili C., Boero F., Tredici S. M., Alifano P. 2010. Susceptibility to Antibiotics of Vibrio sp AO1 Growing in Pure Culture or in Association with its Hydroid Host Aglaophenia octodonta (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). Microbial Ecology 59 (3): 555- 562 103. Gravili C, Belmonte G, Cecere E, Denitto F, Giangrande A, Guidetti P, Longo C, Mastrototaro F, Moscatello S, Petrocelli A, Piraino S, Terlizzi A, Boero F. 2010. Nonindigenous species along the Apulian coast, Italy. Chemistry and ecology 26 (1): 121-142. 104. Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., Guarnieri G., Pizzolante F., D'Ambrosio P., Maiorano P., Bequiraj S., Boero F. 2011. Effects of unplanned development on marine biodiversity: A lesson from Albania (centra Mediterranean Sea). In: Tursi, A. and Corselli, C. (eds.), Coastal Research in Albania: Vlora Gulf, Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 58, pp. 106–115. 105. Stabili L., Gravili C., Tredici S.M., Boero F., Alifano P. 2011. Association of a luminous Vibrio sp., taxonomically related to Vibrio harveyi, with Clytia linearis (Thornely, 1900) (Hydrozoa Cnidaria). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 396: 77-82. 106. Fraschetti S, Guarnieri G, Bevilacqua S, Terlizzi A, Claudet J, Russo GF, Boero F 2011. Conservation of mediterranean habitats and biodiversity countdowns: what information do we really need? Aquatic Conservation: Marine and freshwater Ecosystems 21: 299-306 107. Bevilacqua S., Terlizzi A., Claudet J., Fraschetti S., Boero F. 2012. Taxonomic relatedness does not matter for species surrogacy in the assessment of community responses to environmental drivers. Journal of Applied Ecology. 49, 357–366 108. Gravili C, CG Camillo, S Piraino, F Boero 2013. Hydrozoan species richness in the Mediterranean Sea: past and present. Marine Ecology 34 (s1), 41-62 109. Di Camillo CG, F Boero, C Gravili, M Previati, F Torsani, C Cerrano 2013. Distribution, ecology and morphology of Lytocarpia myriophyllum (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), a Medeterranean Sea habitat former to protect. Biodiversity and Conservation, 22: 1-15 110. Peña Cantero A, Boero F, Piraino S 2013. Shallow water benthic hydroids from Tethys Bay (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica). Polar Biology 36: 731-753.

111. Piraino S, De Vito D, Brodbeck E, Di Camillo CG, Fanelli G, Boero F. 2013. Destructive standard squares or low-impact visually driven collection? A comparison of methods for quantitative samplings of benthic hydrozoans. Italian Journal of Zoology. 80 (3): 424-436 112. Fraschetti S, Guarnieri G, Bevilacqua S., Terlizzi A, Boero F. 2013. Protection enhances community and habitat stability: evidence from a Mediterranean Marine Protected Area. PloS ONE 8 (12) e81838 113. De Donno A, A Idolo, F Bagordo, T Grassi, A Leomanni, F Serio, M Guido, M Canitano, S Zampardi, F Boero and S. Piraino 2014. Impact of stinging jellyfish proliferations along south Italian coasts: human health hazards, treatment and social costs. International Journal of Environmental Research and Publich Health 11 (3): 2488-2503. 114. Milisenda G, Rosa S, Fuentes V, Boero F, Guglielmo L, Purcell J, Piraino S. 2014. Jellyfish as prey: frequency of predation and selective foraging of Boops boops (Vertebrata, Actinopterygii) on the mauve stinger Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Schyphozoa). PloS ONE 9 (4): e94600 115. Aglieri G, Papetti C, Zane L, Milisenda G, Boero F, Piraino S. 2014. First Evidence of Inbreeding, Relatedness and Chaotic Genetic Patchiness in the Holoplanktonic Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria). Plos One. 9(6): e99647. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099647 116. Piraino S, Aglieri G, Martell L, Mazzoldi C, Melli V, Milisenda G., Scorrano S, Boero F. 2014. Pelagia benovici sp.nov. (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa): a new jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa 3794 (3): 455-468. 117. Andreone F, Bartolozzi L, Boano G, Boero F, Bologna MA, Bon M, Bressi N, Capula M, Casale A, Casiraghi M, Chiozzi G, Delfino M, Doria G, Durante A, Ferrari M, Gippoliti S, Lanzinger M, Latella L, Maio N, Marangoni C, Mazzotti S, Minelli A, Muscio G, Nicolosi P, Pievani T, Razzetti E, Sabella G, Valle M, Vomero V, Zilli A (2014) Italian natural history museums on the verge of collapse? ZooKeys 456: 139–146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.456.8862 118. Britten GL, Dowd M, Minto C, Ferretti F, Boero F, Lotze HK 2014. Predator decline leads to decreased stability in a coastal fish community. Ecology Letters 17: 1518-1525 119. Rivetti I, Fraschetti S, Lionello P, Zambianchi E, Boero F. 2014. Global warming and mass mortalities of benthic invertebrates in the Mediterranean Sea. PLoS ONE 9(12): e115655. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115655 120. Boero F 2015 The future of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem: towards a different tomorrow. Rendiconti Lincei 26: 3-12 121. Corriero, G, Pierri, C, Accoroni, S, Alabiso, G, Bavestrello, G, Barbone, E, Bastianini, M, Bazzoni, AM, Bernardi Aubry, F, Boero, F, Buia, MC, Cabrini, M, Camatti, E, Cardone, F, Cataletto, B, Cattaneo Vietti, R, Cecere, E, Cibic, T, Colangelo, P, De Olazabal, A, D'onghia, G, Finotto, S, Fiore, N, Fornasaro, D, Fraschetti, S, Gambi, MC, Giangrande, A, Gravili, C, Guglielmo, R, Longo, C, Lorenti, M, Lugliè, A, Maiorano, P, Mazzocchi, MG, Mercurio, M, Mastrototaro, F, Mistri, M, Monti, M, Munari, C, Musco, L, Nonnis‐Marzano, C, Padedda, BM, Patti, FP, Petrocelli, A, Piraino, S, Portacci, G, Pugnetti, A, Pulina, S, Romagnoli, T, Rosati, I, Sarno, D, Satta, CT, Sechi, N, Schiapparelli, S, Scipione, B, Sion, L, Terlizzi, A, Tirelli, V, Totti, C, Tursi, A, Ungaro, N, Zingone, A, Zupo, V, Basset, A. 2015. Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2550 122. Gravili C, De Vito D, Di Camillo CG, Martell L, Piraino S, Boero F. 2015. The non-Siphonophoran Hydrozoa (Cnidaria) of Salento, Italy with notes on their life-cycles: an illustrated guide. Zootaxa 3908: 1-187 123. Purcell JE, Milisenda G, Rizzo A, Carrion SA, Zampardi S, Airoldi S, Zagami G, Guglielmo L, Boero F, Doyle TK, Piraino S. 2015. Digestion and predation rates of zooplankton by the pleustonic hydroid Velella velella and widespread blooms in 2013 and 2014. Journal of Plankton Research doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbv031 124. Gravili C, Bevilacqua S, Terlizzi A. Boero F. 2015. Missing species among Mediterranean non-Siphonophoran Hydrozoa. Biodiversity and Conservation. 24:1329–1357 125. Benedetti-Cecchi L, Canepa A, Fuentes V, Tamburello L, Purcell JE, Piraino S, et al. (2015) Deterministic Factors Overwhelm Stochastic Environmental Fluctuations as Drivers of Jellyfish Outbreaks. PLoS ONE 10(10): e0141060. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141060 126. Boero F, AC Kraberg, G Krause, KH Wiltshire 2015. Time is an affliction: why ecology cannot be as predictive ad physics and why it needs time series. Journal of Sea Research 101: 12-18 127. Galil B S, Boero F, Campbell M L, Carlton J T, Cook E, Fraschetti S, Gollasch S, Hewitt C L, Jelmert A, Macpherson E, Marchini A, McKenzie C, Minchin D, Occhipinti-Ambrogi A, Ojaveer H, Olenin S, Piraino S, Ruiz G M. 2015. ‘Double trouble’: the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea. Biological Invasions, 17: 973- 976. 128. Gibbons, M. J., Boero, F., and Brotz, L. 2016. We should not assume that fishing jellyfish will solve our jellyfish problem. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 73 (4): 1012-1018. 129. Milisenda, G., Martinez-Quintana A., Fuentes VL, Bosch-Belmar, Aglieri G., Boero F., Piraino S. 2016, Reproductive and bloom patterns of Pelagia noctiluca in the Strait of Messina, Italy,Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.01.002 130. Mastrototaro F, Aguilar R, Chimenti G, Gravili C, Boero F. 2016. The rediscovery of Rosalinda incrustans (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in the Mediterranean Sea. Italian Journal of Zoology. 82 (2): 244-247 131. Scorrano S, Aglieri G, Boero F, Dawson MN, Piraino S. 2016. Unmasking Aurelia species in the Mediterranean Sea: an integrative morphometric and molecular approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: 10.1111/zoj.12494

on non-ISI Journals

1. Della Croce N., Boero F. 1976. Ecologia e biologia dei porti del Mar Ligure e Alto Tirreno. Aspetti termici del Golfo di La Spezia. IIIes Journées d’Etudes Pollutions: 125-131. 2. Balestra V., Boero F., Carli A. 1976. Andamento del pescato della tonnarella di Camogli dal 1950 al 1974. Valutazioni bio- statistiche. Bollettino Pesca Piscicoltura Idrobiologia 31: 105-115. 3. Boero F., Carli A., Sarà R. 1976. Considerazioni sulle catture di tonni nella tonnarella di Camogli (Ge) (1950-1974). Memorie di Biologia Marina e Oceanografia 6 Suppl.: 68-70.

4. Boero F., Carli A. 1977. Popolamenti animali riscontrati sulla rete della tonnarella di Camogli. Primo contributo. Atti IX Congresso S.I.B.M.: 161-169. 5. Boero F., Carli A. 1977. Prima segnalazione mediterranea di Sphyrna mokarran (Ruppell) (Selachii, Sphyrnidae). Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell’Università di Genova 45: 91-93. 6. Sarà M., Balduzzi A., Boero F., Pansini M., Pessani D., Pronzato R. 1978. Analisi di un popolamento bentonico di falesia del Promontorio di Portofino: dati preliminari. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell’Università di Genova 46: 119-137. 7. Boero F., Carli A. 1979. Catture di elasmobranchi nella tonnarella di Camogli (Genova) dal 1950 al 1974. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell’Università di Genova 47: 27-34. 8. Boero F., Carli A. 1979. Osservazioni sul comportamento dell'anfipode Jassa falcata (Montagu). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 6: 147-153. 9. Boero F. 1980. Life cycles of hydroids and hydromedusae: some cases of difficult interpretation. Memorie di Biologia Marina e Oceanografia Suppl. X: 133-136. 10. Boero F., Belloni S., Cattaneo R. 1980. Influenza delle fasi lunari e dei cicli nictemerali sul pescato della tonnarella di Camogli (Genova) in 25 anni (1950-1974). Memorie di Biologia Marina e Oceanografia Suppl. X: 369-370. 11. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pansini M., Pessani D., Pronzato R., Sarà M. 1980. Ricerche sull'insediamento dello zoobenthos in alcune grotte della Penisola Sorrentina. Memorie di Biologia Marina e Oceanografia Suppl. X: 121-127. 12. Boero F. 1981. Bathimetric distribution of the epifauna of a Posidonia meadow of the Isle of Ischia (Naples): hydroids. Rapports Commission Internationale Mer Méditerranée 27 (2): 197-198. 13. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1981. A method for semiquantitative samplings of the sessile epifauna of Posidonia oceanica beds. Rapports Commission Internationale Mer Méditerranée 27 (9): 247-248. 14. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1981. Emploi de relevements photographiques dans l'etude de l'evolution des biocoenoses de substrat dur naturel. Rapports Commission Internationale Mer Méditerranée 27 (9): 249-251. 15. Balduzzi A., Belloni S., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1982. Prime osservazioni sulle barriere artificiali della riserva sottomarina di Monaco. Naturalista Siciliano S. IV, VI Suppl. 3: 601-605. 16. Boero F. 1982. Osservazioni ecologiche sugli idroidi del sistema fitale del Promontorio di Portofino (Mar Ligure). Naturalista Siciliano S. IV, VI Suppl. 3: 610-615. 17. Boero F. 1982. The benthic populations of the submarine reserve of Monaco. 2: hydroids. Journée Etudes Récifs artificielles et Mariculture suspendue Cannes (CIESM): 85-86. 18. Boero F. 1982. L'influenza dei parametri ambientali sulla biologia e l'ecologia degli idroidi: problemi e prospettive. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell’Università di Genova, 50 Suppl.: 61-64. 19. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1983. Le ricerche subacquee del gruppo biologia marina dell'Istituto di Zoologia dell'Università di Genova. 7th Int. Diving Symp. C.M.A.S. Padova: 79-86. 20. Balduzzi A., Bavestrello G., Belloni S., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1984. Valutazione dello stato di alcune praterie di Posidonia del Mar Ligure sottoposte a diverse condizioni di inquinamento. Int. Workshop on Posidonia oceanica beds. Porquerrolles (France) 12-15 Octobre 1983. GIS Posidonia Marseille: 73-78. 21. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1985. Etude du benthos sur les structures immergées dans la Réserve de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institute Océanographique de Monaco nr special 4: 163-165. 22. Boero F. 1985. Hydroid zonation along a marine cave of the penisola Sorrentina (Gulf of Naples). Rapports de la Commission internationale de la Mer Méditerranée 29 (5): 135-136. 23. Boero F., Balduzzi A., Bavestrello G., Caffa B., Cattaneo-Vietti R. 1985. Seasonal dynamics of a population of Eudendrium (Cnidaria, Hydroida) in the Ligurian Sea. S.IT.E. Atti 5: 241-242 . 24. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Fresi E., Lattes A., Pansini M., Pessani D., Pronzato R. 1985. Minimal sampling area for some components of hard-bottom sessile zoobenthos. S.IT.E. Atti 5: 619. 25. Boero F., Minelli A. 1986. First record of Carybdea marsupialis (L., 1758) (Cnidaria, Cubozoa) from the Adriatic Sea. Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia 35: 179-180. 26. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo-Vietti R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1986. Long-term photographic records from the artificial reefs of Monaco (1980-1985). Rapports de la Commission internationale de la Mer Méditerranée 30 (2): 264. 27. Balduzzi A., Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Burlando B., Cattaneo-Vietti R., Manconi R., Morri C., Pansini M., Pronzato R., Salghetti- Drioli U. 1986. Premieres observations sur la distribution des biocenoses littorales de substrat dur de l'ile de Capraia (Archipel Toscan) par deux méthodes de rélevement en plongée. Rapports de la Commission internationale de la Mer Méditerranée 30 (2): 263. 28. Bouillon J., Boero F., Gravier N. 1986. Pseudostenotele, a new type of nematocyst, and its phylogenetic meaning in the Haleciidae (Cnidaria, Hydroida). Indo-Malayan Zoology 3: 63-69. 29. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo Vietti R., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1986. Esperienze di studio in immersione dello zoobenthos sessile. Atti 7° Congresso AIOL Trieste: 511-518. 30. Boero F. 1986. Ecology and evolution: contributions from the study of Hydromedusae (Cnidaria). Nova Thalassia 8, Suppl. 3: 471-476. 31. Boero F., Cornelius P. F. S. 1987. First record of Eudendrium glomeratum (Cnidaria, Hydroida) in British and Irish waters and taxonomic comments. Irish Naturalists' Journal 22 (6): 244-246. 32. Bouillon J., Boero F. 1987. The life cycle of Teissiera medusifera (Teissieridae, Anthomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Indo- Malayan Zoology 4: 1-9. 33. Bouillon J., Boero F., Seghers G. 1987. Redescription of Cladocoryne haddoni Kirckpatrick and a proposed phylogeny of the superfamily Zancleoidea (Anthomedusae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 279-292. 34. Boero F., Bouillon J., Danovaro R. 1987. The life cycle of Tiaropsidium roseum (Tiaropsidae fam. nov., Leptomedusae, Cnidaria). Indo-Malayan Zoology 4: 293-302. 35. Bavestrello G., Boero F. 1987 (1986). Necrosi e rigenerazione in Eunicella cavolinii (Anthozoa, Cnidaria) in Mar Ligure. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell’Università di Genova 52: 295-300. 36. Bouillon J., Boero F., Seghers G. 1988. Notes additionnelles sur les Hydroméduses de la Mer de Bismarck (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) II. Indo-Malayan Zoology 5: 87-99. 37. Bouillon J., Seghers G., Boero F. 1988. Note sur les cnidocystes des hydroméduses de la mer de Bismarck (Papouasie-Nouvelle

Guinée). Indo-Malayan Zoology 5: 203-224. 38. Bouillon J., Seghers G., Boero F. 1988. Notes additionnelles sur les méduses de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) III. Indo-Malayan Zoology 8: 225-253. 39. Cattaneo-Vietti R., Boero F. 1989. Relationships between eolid (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) radular morphology and their cnidarian prey. Bollettino Malacologico 24: 215-222. 40. Piraino S., Morri C., Boero F. 1990. Plasticità intraspecifica nelle idromeduse (Cnidaria: Anthomedusae, leptomedusae): risposta della fase polipoide a diverse condizioni ambientali. Oebalia Suppl. 14-1: 383-394. 41. Boero F. 1991. Contribution to the understanding of blooms in the marine environment. UNEP. Jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean. Proc. II Workshop on Jellyfish in the Mediterranean Sea. MAP Technical Reports Series No. 47. UNEP, Athens: 72-76. 42. Boero F., Cattaneo-Vietti R. 1991 (1989). Considerazioni sulle variazioni e fluttuazioni nelle biocenosi marine. Nova Thalassia, 10 (Suppl. 1): 527-531. 43. Bouillon J., Wouters K., Boero F. 1992. Etude des Solanderiidae de la Baie de Hansa (Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée) avec une révision du genre Solanderia. Bulletin de l'Institute royale de Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Biologie) 62: 5-33 44. Quarta S., Piccinni M.R., Geraci S., Boero F. 1992. Isolation of resting stages of planktonic organisms from fine-grained sediments. Oebalia 18 (N.S.): 121-128. 45. Boero F., Fanelli G., Geraci S. 1993. Desertificazione e ricolonizzazione in ambiente costiero: un modello di sviluppo di biocenosi. Memorie della Società Ticinese di Scienze Naturali 4: 219-228. 46. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1994. Ecological and evolutionary implications of medusozoan (mainly hydromedusae) life cycles. UNEP/FAO: Final reports on research projects dealing with the effects of pollutants on marine organisms and communities. MAP Technical Report Series 80. UNEP, Athens: 1-24. 47. Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Forti S., Morri C. 1994. La palude del Capitano: un ambiente salmastro costiero della Penisola Salentina di interesse idrobiologico e speleologico. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Speleologia 6: 99-106. 48. Boero F. 1995. L'ecologia come chiave di lettura dell'evoluzione. Quaderni della Stazione di Ecologia del civico Museo di Storia naurale di Ferrara 9: 329-333. 49. Boero F., Della Croce N., Geraci S. 1996. The ecology of marine resting stages: a new perspective in marine science. Atti 11° congresso AIOL: 405-409. 50. Belmonte G., Boero F., Cavalera E. 1996. Forme di resistenza nei sedimenti dello stagno costiero "Le Cesine" (Lecce). Atti 11° congresso AIOL: 563-569 51. Boero F. 1996. Specie, biodiversità e comunità. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 3 (1): 13-20. 52. Rubino F., Saracino O.D., Fanelli G., Belmonte G., Boero F. 1996. Plankton dynamics in the mar Piccolo of Taranto: a pilot plan. Giornale Botanico Italiano 130: 1032-1036. 53. Boero F., Bouillon J., Piraino S., Schmid V. 1997. Diversity of hydrozoan life cycles: ecological implications and evolutionary patterns. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 1995. National Natuurhistorisch Museum Leiden: 53-62. 54. Boero F., Bouillon J., Kubota S. 1997. The medusae of some species of Hebella, Hebellopsis and Anthohebella gen. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Leptomedusae) with a revision of the three genera. Zoolisches Verhandelingen 310: 1-53. 55. Pati A.C., Belmonte G., Boero F. 1997. Stadi di resistenza dello zooplancton nei sedimenti: nuove componenti della meiofauna? S.It.E. Atti 18: 219-220. 56. Pati A.C., Giangrande A., Boero F., Fanelli G. 1997. Biotic interactions during primary settlement on artificial substrates. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 4 (1): 140-146. 57. Rubino F., Belmonte G., Todaro M., Boero F. 1997. Cisti di protisti nei sedimenti del Golfo di Taranto. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 4 (1): 612-614. 58. Giangrande A., Fanelli G., Pati A. C., Fraschetti S., Boero F. 1997. Life cycle patterns and marine conservation. S.It.E. Atti 18: 251-254. 59. Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Fonda Umani S., Morri C., Vacchi M. 1998. Successione e cambiamento negli ecosistemi marini. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 5 (1): 117-135. 60. Rubino F., Saracino O. D., Fanelli G., Belmonte G., Miglietta A., Boero F. 1998. Life cycles and pelagos-benthos interactions. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 5 (1): 253-259. 61. Pati A. C., Belmonte G., Fanelli G., Giangrande A., Gravili C., Saracino O.D., Boero F. 1998. Interkingdom convergence in the architecture of asexual propagules. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 5 (1): 365-366. 62. Celiberti M.E., Piraino S., Pagliara P., Boero F. 1998. Specializzazione dell’habitat ed ermafroditismo simultaneo in Eugymnanthea inquilina (Hydrozoa). Biologia Marina Mediterranea 5 (1): 537-539. 63. Boero F., Bouillon J., Piraino S. 1998. Heterochrony, generic distinction and phylogeny in the family Hydractiniidae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). Zoologisches Verhandelingen 323: 25-36. 64. Gili J.M., Alvà V., Coma R., Orejas C., Pagès F., Ribes M., Zabala M., Arntz W., Bouillon J., Boero F., Hughes R.G. 1998. The impact of small benthic passive suspension feeders in shallow marine ecosystems: the hydroids as an example. Zoologisches Verhandelingen 323: 99-105. 65. Boero F. 1998. Ontogeny. 1999 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology: 255-258. 66. Belmonte G., Pirandola P., Degetto S., Boero F. 1999. Abbondanza, distribuzione verticale e vitalità di forme di resistenza in sedimenti del Nord Adriatico (studio preliminare). Biologia Marina Mediterranea 6 (1): 172-178. 67. Fraschetti S., Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Buia M.C., Della Tommasa L., Denitto F., Esposito L., Fanelli G., Giangrande A., Miglietta M.P., Morri C., Piraino S., Rubino F. 1999. Human disturbance and biodiversity along the Apulian coast. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 6 (1): 198-204. 68. Boero F., Briand F., Micheli F. 1999. Executive summary. In: F. Briand (ed). Scientific design and monitoring of Mediterranean marine protected areas. CIESM Workshop Series 8: 7-14. 69. Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. The hydrozoa: a new classification in the light of old knowledge. Thalassia Salentina 24: 3- 45. 70. Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. Synopsis of the families and genera of the hydromedusae of the world, with a list of the worldwide species. Thalassia Salentina 24: 47- 296. 71. Boero F., Briand F. 2001. Executive summary. In: Gelatinous Zooplankton outbreaks: theory and practice. CIESM Workshop

Series 14: 7-22. 72. Boero F. 2001. Adriatic ecological history: a link between jellyfish outbreaks, red tides, mass mortalities, overfishing, mucilages, and thaliacean plankton? In: Gelatinous Zooplankton outbreaks: theory and practice. CIESM Workshop Series, 14: 55-57. 73. Boero F. 2002. Gelatinous zooplankton: here today and gone tomorrow, but ignored at our peril. Ocean Challenge 12(1): 24-27. 74. Boero F. 2002. Ship-driven biological invasions in the Mediterranean Sea. IN: Alien marine organisms introduced by ships in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. CIESM Workshop Monographs 20: 87-91. 75. Boero F., Bouillon J., Gravili C., Piraino S. 2003. Who cares about the Hydrozoa of the Mediterranean Sea? an essay on the zoogeography of inconspicuous groups. Biogeographia 24 : 101-113. 76. Boero F. 2003. The known: Historical and contemporary perspectives concerning species composition, their distribution and general trends of their abundance over time. Phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos. In: Arvanitidis, C.; Eleftheriou, A.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Appeltans, W.; van Avesaath, P.H.; Heip, C.H.R., Mees, J., eds. Electronic conference on ‘Marine Biodiversity in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea’ - Summary of discussions, 7 to20 April, 2003. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende, Belgium. pp. 19-26. 77. Boero F. 2003. State of knowledge of marine and coastal biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. Project for the Preparation of a Strategic Action Plan for the conservation of biological diversity in the Mediterranean region. (Sap BIO). United Nations Environmental Programme, Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas, Tunis. 29 pp. 78. Bussotti S., Belmonte G., Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., D’Ambrosio P., Guidetti P., Denitto F., Boero F. 2005. Submarine caves in southern Apulia as priority habitats for conservation purposes. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 12 (1): 130-134. 79. Boero F. 2005. Lots of biodiversity research services... but for whom? MaRBEF Newsletter 3: 27. 80. Boero F., Bussotti S., D'Ambrosio P., Fraschetti S., Guidetti P., Terlizzi A. 2005. Biodiversità e Aree Marine Protette. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 12 (1): 1-22 81. Miglietta A., Belmonte G., Boero F. 2005. Conoscere il pubblico potenziale per allestire una sala museale. Museologia scientifica 20 (2): 217-234. 82. Boero F., Di Camillo C., Gravili C. 2005. Aquatic invasions: phantom aliens in Mediterranean waters. MarBEF Newsletter 3, 21–22. 83. Boero F. 2007. Macrodescriptors: looking at simplicity to understand complexity. Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Médit. 38: 84. Boero F. 2007. The history of the Hydrozoan Society, 1983-2007. Invertebrate Zoology, 4 (2): 209-215 85. Boero F., Rinaldi A. 2008. La biodiversità e i macrodescrittori della storia dell’Adriatico. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 15 (1): 450-456. 86. Boero F., Féral J.P., Azzurro E., Cardin V., Riedel B., Despalatović M., Munda I., Moschella P., Zaouali J., Fonda Umani S., Theocharis A., Wiltshire K., Briand F. 2008. I - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF CIESM WORKSHOP Climate warming and related changes in Mediterranean marine biota. CIESM Workshop Monographs 35: 5-21 87. Sala E., Becker N., Boero F., Doss M., Galil B.S., Henocque Y., Luisetti T., Nunes P., Pavlinovic S., Scapini F., Tosun C., Briand F. 2008. Economic Valuation of natural coastal and marine ecosystems. CIESM Workshop Monograph 37: 5-19 88. Boero F. 2008. Price and value, alternatives to biodiversity conservation (in the seas). CIESM Workshop Monograph 37: 61-64. 89. Gravili C., Boero F., Licandro P. 2008. Hydrozoa. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 15 (suppl.): 71-91 90. Boero F., Gennari A., Tresca F., Miglietta A.M. 2009. La biodiversità marina e il funzionamento degli ecosistemi. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Contributi del Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre” 120: 27-49. 91. Turan C., Boero F., Boltachev A., Duzgunes E., Ilyin Y.P., Kideys A., Micu D., Milliman J.D., Minicheva G., Moschella P., Oguz T., Ozturk B., Portner H.O., Shiganova T., Shivarov A., Yakushev E., Briand F. 2009. Climate forcing and its impacts on the Black Sea marine Biota. CIESM Workshop Monographs 39: 5-23. 92. Boero F., Putti M., Trainito E. Prontera E., Piraino S. 2009. First records of Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora) from the Ligurian, Thyrrhenian and Ionian Seas (Western Mediterranean) and first record of Phyllorhiza punctata (Cnidaria) from the Western Mediterranean. Aquatic Invasions 4 (4): 675-680. 93. Fraschetti S., Terlizzi A., D’Ambrosio P., Maiorano P., Tursi A., Mastrototaro F., Costantino G., Boero F. 2009. I siti di importanza comunitaria (SIC) marini della Puglia: stato delle conoscenze e implicazioni nelle strategie di monitoraggio, gestione e conservazione. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 16 (1): 84-87. 94. Boero F. 2010. The study of species in the era of biodiversity: a tale of stupidity. Diversity 2: 115-126 95. Boero F. 2010. Marine Sciences: from natural history to ecology and back, on Darwin's shoulders. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology 1 (2): 219-233. 96. Boero F. 2011. Information and technology are not enough: we need also knowledge and science. Scientific Research and Information Technology 1: 3-12 97. Miglietta A.M., Pace R., Boero F. 2011. Evaluating student’s comprehension of messages on panels. Visitor Studies 14 (2): 209- 218 98. Boero F. 2013. Observational articles: a tool to reconstruct ecological history based on chronicling unusual events [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/1kg] F1000Research 2013, 2:168 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-168.v1) 99. Boero F, Belmonte G, Bracale R, Fraschetti S, Piraino S, Zampardi S. 2013. A salp bloom (Tunicata, Thaliacea) along the Apulian coast and in the Otranto Channel between March-May 2013 [v1; ref status: awaiting peer review, http://f1000r.es/1ok] F1000Research 2013, 2:181 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-181.v1) 100. Boero F., Carlton J. Briand F., Kiessling W., Chenuil A., Voultsiadou E., Twitchett R., Soldo A. Panigada S. Juan-Jorda MJ, Malian C.J. Cury P., Moschella P. 2013. Marine Extinctions. Patterns and Processes. CIESM Workshop Monographs 45: 5-19. 101. Boero F., Gravili C. 2013. The bio-ecology of marine extinctions, with a lesson from the Hydrozoa. CIESM Workshop Monographs 45: 75-79. 102. Boero F. 2015. From Darwin’s Origin of Species towards a theory of natural history. F1000 Prime Reports, 7:49 (doi:10.12703/P7-49) 7 (49) 103. Boero F. 2015. Scientists can be free, but only once they are tenured. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 15 (1): 63- 69 104. Carniel S., Benetazzo A., Boero F., Boldrin A., Falcieri F M., Langone L., Sclavo M., Taviani M., Trincardi F., Bonaldo D. 2015. Interdisciplinary investigation of off-shelf transport in the souther Adriatic Sea: the role of Bari canyon. pp. 145- 156 In

CIESM Monograph 47 [F. Briand ed.] Submarine canyon dynamics in the Mediterranean and tributary seas - An integrated geological, oceanographic and biological perspective, 232 p. CIESM Publisher, Monaco.

Editorials, Letters, Book reviews 1. Boero F. 1990. Life cycles, life histories and recruitment. Trends in Ecology and Evolution,5 (6): 200. 2. Boero F. 1994. Bright young people, biodiversity and species lists. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9 (10): 399. 3. Boero F. 1996. MHC and mate selection in humans? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11 (1): 24 4. Boero F., Belmonte G., Fanelli G., Piraino S., Rubino F. 1996. Benthic-pelagic uncoupling of carbon flow, Reply from F. Boero et al. Trends in Ecology and Evolution,11 (11): 472. 5. Boero F., Mills C. E. 1997. Agricultural versus ethological oceanography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12 (6): 208-209. 6. Boero F. 1997. Is the ecology of molecules really ecology? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12 (8): 319-320 7. Boero F., Mills C.E. 1999. Hydrozoan people come together. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 14 (4): 127-128. 8. Boero F. 1999. More about evolutionary developmental biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12 (1): 196-197. 9. Boero F. 1999. Macroecology returns. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 12 (5): 999-1001. 10. Boero F. 2000. The Mediterranean crossroad. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13: 731. 11. Boero F. 2000. The Overwhelming variety of life. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13: 867-868. 12. F. Boero 2001. More space for provocative ideas! Marine Ecology Progress Series 211: 306. 13. Boero F. 2001. Light after dark: the partnership for enhancing expertise in taxonomy. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16 (5): 266. 14. Boero F. 2003. Just looking at fossils. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16 (5): 1061. 15. Riisgard H.U., Kinne O., Fenchel T., Fee E., Hesslein R., Elser J., Scranton M., Cole J., Hairston N., Canuel E., Glud R., Nielsen C., Beninger P., Waagbo R., Hemre G.I., Hulata G., Hoisaeter T., McLusky D., Kneib R., Shumway S., Warwick R., Hagerman L., Larsen P.S., Ott J., Dworschak P.C., Boero F., Gili J.M., Philippart K., Seaman M. 2003. Misuse of the peer- review system: time for countermeasures? Marine Ecology Progress Series 258: 297-309. 16. Boero F. 2003. Selling beautifully packaged garbage. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 921. 17. Boero F. 2008. Italy: restoring axed funds is not enough to cure all ills. Nature 456: 166. 18. Boero F. 2009. Animal science in action, from molecular biology to ecology. Italian Journal of Zoology 76 (1): 1-2. 19. Boero F. 2009. The many faces of zoology. Italian Journal of Zoology 76 (2): 145-145 20. Boero F. 2009. Zology in the era of biodiversity. Italian Journal of Zoology 76 (3): 239-239 21. Boero F. 2009. For adults only?: Phases in the life! Italian Journal of Zoology 76 (4): 347-347 22. Boero F. 2010. Reviewing zoology. Italian Journal of Zoology 77 (1): 1-1 23. Boero F. 2010. An eye on evolution. Italian Journal of Zoology 77 (2): 123 24. Boero F. 2010. 2010, the year of biodiversity. Italian Journal of Zoology 77 (3): 253 25. Boero F. 2010. New and old tools in biodiversity exploration. Italian Journal of Zoology 77 (4): 373 26. Boero F. 2011. New species are welcome, but...what about the old ones? Italian Journal of Zoology 78 (1): 1-2 27. Boero F. 2011. What is an international Journal? Italian Journal of Zoology 78 (2): 273 28. Boero F. 2011. What is behind a species name? Italian Journal of Zoology 78 (4): 409 29. Boero F. 2012. Animals and global change. Italian Journal of Zoology 79 (1): 1 30. Boero F. 2012. Distributions matter, but... Italian Journal of Zoology 79 (4): 481 31. Boero F. 2013. From science to policy and back. Italian Journal of Zoology 80(4): 467-468 32. Boero F. 2014. Humans are animals. Italian Journal of Zoology 81 (1), 1-1 33. Boero F. 2014. GES Revolutions. Italian Journal of Zoology 81 (3), 311-311 34. Boero F. 2014. Experiments vs. comparisons: the odd couple. Italian Journal of Zoology 81 (4), 477-477 35. Boero F, Bernardi G. 2014. Phenotypic vs genotypic approaches to biodiversity, from conflict to alliance. Marine Genomics 17: 63-64 36. Andreone F, Bartolozzi L, Boano G, Boero F, et al. 2015. Natural History: save Italy’s Museums. Nature, 517: 271 37. Boero F., Orombelli G., Pignatti S., Seminara G. 2015. Sutainable management of the Mediterranean. Rediconti Lincei 26: 1-2 38. Boero F, Dupont S, Thorndyke M. 2015. Make new friends, but keep the old: towards a transdisciplinary and balanced strategy to evaluate Good Environmental Status. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 95 (6): 1069-1070 39. Boero F. 2015. Is celebrating Darwin still worth while? Italian Journal of Zoology 82 (1), 1-2 40. Boero F. 2015. We need monographs and revisions. Italian Journal of Zoology 82 (2), 149-150 41. Boero F. 2015. Bibliometric ups and downs. Italian Journal of Zoology 82 (3), 299-299 42. Boero F. 2015. Heavenly zoology. Italian Journal of Zoology 82 (4): 459 43. Boero F. 2016. The historical convergence. Italian Journal of Zoology 83 (1): 1-2 44. Boero F. 2016. The zoology of Babel. Italian Journal of Zoology 83 (2): 151-152 45. Boero F. 2016. Teaching zoology in the age of machines. Italian Journal of Zoology 83 (3): 283-284

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Book chapters

1. Balduzzi A., Belloni S., Boero F., Pessani D., Pronzato R. 1979. I popolamenti bentonici. In: M.G. Andreoli, S. Loppel, C. Orsini (Eds): Analisi di una ricerca: il Golfo di Levanto. La Spezia: 51-65. 2. Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Pessani D., M. Pansini, R. Pronzato, Cicogna F. 1982. An approach to the study of the benthic fauna of some marine caves of the Penisola Sorrentina (Naples, Italy). In: I. Blanchard, J. Mair, I. Morrison (Eds). Proceedings of the World Underwater Federation (CMAS). Natural Environmental Research Council: 176-182. 3. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1987. Inconsistent evolution and paedomorphosis among hydroids and medusae of Athecatae/Anthomedusae and Thecatae/Leptomedusae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna & P. Cornelius (Eds). Modern trends in systematics, ecology and evolution of hydroids and hydromedusae. Clarendon Press, Oxford:

229-250. 4. Boero F. 1987. Evolutionary implications of the habitat selection in the hydroids of Posidonia oceanica meadows. In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna & P. Cornelius (Eds). Modern trends in systematics, ecology and evolution of hydroids and hydromedusae Clarendon Press, Oxford: 251-256. 5. Boero F. 1989. I bloom nell'ambiente marino. In: N. Della Croce (Ed.) Lezioni sulla protezione dell'ambiente marino. CEDAM, Padova: 93-100. 6. Boero F., Bouillon J. 1989. An evolutionary interpretation of anomalous medusoid stages in the life cycles of some Leptomedusae (Cnidaria). In: J.Ryland & P. Tyler (Eds). Reproduction, Genetics and Distributions of Marine organisms Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg: 37-41. 7. Boero F., Bouillon J., Piraino S. 1992. On the origins and evolution of hydromedusan life cycles (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). In: R. Dallai (Ed.). Sex Origin and Evolution. Selected Symposia and Monographs U.Z.I., 6. Mucchi, Modena: 59-68. 8. Avian M., Boero F., Mills C.E., Rossi L., Rottini Sandrini L. 1995. Cnidaria, Ctenophora. In: A. Minelli, S. Ruffo & S. La Posta (Eds.). Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana 5: 4-35, Calderini, Bologna. 9. Belmonte G., Castello P., Piccinni M.R., Quarta S., Rubino F., Geraci S., Boero F. 1995. Resting stages off the Italian coast. in A. Elefteriou, A. D. Ansell, C. J. Smith (Eds). Biology and ecology of Shallow Coastal Waters, Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg: 53- 58. 10. Boero F., Belmonte G., Giangrande A., Fanelli G., Gravili C., Bouillon J., Piraino S., Rubino F. 1995. Riserve bentoniche di biodiversità planctonica. In: F. Faranda (Ed.). Caratterizzazione ambientale marina del sistema Eolie e dei bacini limitrofi di Cefalù e Gioia (EOCUMM94) Data Rep.: 261-264. 11. Boero F. 1999. Community Ecology: a life cycle perspective. In: A. Farina (Ed.). Perspectives in Ecology, Backyus Publishers, Leiden: 335-342. 12. Boero. F., Bouillon J., Piraino S., Schmid V. 2002. Asexual reproduction in the Hydrozoa (Cnidaria). In: R.N. Hughes (ed.), Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates XI: Progress in Asexual Reproduction, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. New Delhi: 141- 158. 13. Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Fraschetti S., Morri C. 2002. La fauna del Mediterraneo. In: A. Minelli, G. Chemini, R. Argano, S. Ruffo Eds. La Fauna In Italia. Touring Editore, Milano e Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio, pp. 248-335. 14. Boero F., Bouillon J. 2003. Hydrozoa. In: N. Schlager (ed.), Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia. Second Edition, Vol. 1: Lower Metazoans and Lesser Deuterostomes. Thomson Gale, Detroit:123-146. 15. Bianchi C.N., Boero F., Fraschetti S., Morri C. 2004. Il popolamento sommerso. In: A. Minelli (ED.) Coste marine rocciose. Quaderni Habitat 7, Ministero dell’Ambiente e Tutela del Territorio. Pp. 105-133. 16. Boero F., Bouillon J. 2005. Cnidaria and Ctenophora. In: Rhode K. (Eds.) Marine Parasitology. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. Pp 177-182. 17. Boero F., Fraschetti S. 2009. Habitat Marini: fauna ed ecologia. In: F. Stoch ed. Gli Habitat italiani, espressione della biodiversità. Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare, Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, Udine, pp 149-185 18. Boero F., Piraino S. 2010. From Cnidaria to "Higher Metazoa" in one step. in: DeSalle R., Schierwater B. (eds) Key Transitions in Animal Evolution. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 162-174. 19. Boero F. 2010. Ecology as an historical discipline. In: Gertwagen R., Fortibuoni T., Giovanardi O., Libralato S., Solidoro C. & Raicevich S. (Eds), When Humanities Meet Ecology: Historic changes in Mediterranean and Black Sea marine biodiversity and ecosystems since the Roman period until nowadays. Languages, methodologies and perspectives. Proceedings of the HMAP International Summer School. 31st August – 4th September 2009, Trieste (Italy). ISPRA Serie Atti 2010, Rome, pp. 73-79. 20. Canepa A, Fuentes V, Sabatés A, Piraino S, Boero F, Gili JM 2014. Pelagia noctiluca in the Mediterranean Sea. in: KA Pitt and CH Lucas (eds) Jellyfish Blooms. Springer Science + Business Media Dordrecht, 237-266 21. Boero F. 2016. Mediterranean Scenarios. In: Bekker-Nielsen T. & R. Gertwagen (eds) The inland seas. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Geographica Historica - 35, pp 387-398 22. Boero F., L. Brotz, M.J. Gibbons, S. Piraino, S. Zampardi. 2016. Impacts and effects of ocean warming on jellyfish. In: Laffoley, D., & Baxter, J.M. (editors). 2016. Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences. Full report. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. pp. 213-237. 23. Boero F. 2017. From Marine Protected Areas to MPA Networks. In: P. Goriup (ed.). Management of Marine Protected Areas. A Network Perspective. Wiley and Sons (Chichester), pp. 1-20

Edited Books 1) Balduzzi A., Boero F., Cattaneo R., Cicogna F., Gaino E., Pansini M., Pronzato R. 1983. Atti del XIV Congresso della SIBM. Bollettino dei Musei e degli Istituti Biologici dell'Università di Genova, 50 (Suppl), 400 pp. 2) Bouillon J., Boero F., Cicogna F., Cornelius P.F.S. 1987. Modern trends in systematics, ecology, and evolution of hydroids and hydromedusae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 328 pp. 3) Bouillon J., Boero F., Cicogna F., Gili J.M., Hughes R. 1992. Aspects of Hydrozoan biology. Scientia Marina 56 (2-3), 296 pp. 4) Piraino S., Boero F., Bouillon J., Cornelius P.F.S., Gili J.M. 1996. Advances in Hydrozoan Biology. Scientia Marina 60 (1), 243 pp. 5) Mills C. E., Boero F., Migotto A., Gili J.M.. 2000. Trends in Hydrozoan Biology – IV. Scientia Marina 64 (Suppl. 1), 284 pp. 6) Bouillon J., Boero F. 2000. Phylogeny and classification of Hydroidomedusae. Thalassia Salentina 24. 296 pp. 7) Boero F., Cattaneo-Vietti R., Faranda F.M., Frache R. 2002. Fluctuations, Anomalies, Recovery. P.S.Z.N.I: Marine Ecology 23, Suppl 1: 410 pp. 8) Boero F., Corselli C., Frache R., Spezie G., Tursi A. 2004. Extreme environments and transitional aquatic systems. Chemistry and Ecology, 20, suppl 1, 459 pp. 9) Piraino S., Cunningham C.W., Boero F. 2013. Current trends in Hydrozoan Biology - VI. Marine Ecology, an evolutionary perspective. 34 (supp. 1). 1-203.

Authored books

1) Morri C., Boero F. 1986. Catalogue of main marine fouling organisms. Vol. 7. Hydroids. Office d'Etudes Marines et Atmosphériques ODEMA, Bruxelles, 91 pp. 2) Bouillon J., Medel M.D., Pagès F., Gili J.M., Boero F., Gravili C. 2004. Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa. Scientia Marina 68 (Suppl. 2): 1-449. 3) Bouillon J., Gravili C., Pagès F., Gili J-M., Boero F. 2006. An Introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Musèum national d'Histoire naturelle. PARIS: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (FRANCE) 194, 598 pp. 4) Boero F. 2006. Ecologia della Bellezza. Besa Editore, Nardò, 162 pp 5) Argano R., Boero F., Bologna M. A., Dallai R., Lanzavecchia G., Luporini P., Melone G., Sbordoni V., Scalera Liaci L. 2007. Zoologia. Diversità animale. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna. 612 pp 6) Argano R., Boero F., Bologna M. A., Dallai R., Lanzavecchia G., Luporini P., Melone G., Sbordoni V., Scalera Liaci L. 2007. Zoologia. Evoluzione Adattamento. Monduzzi Editore, Bologna. 298 pp 7) Boero F. 2008. Ecologia ed Evoluzione della religione. Edizioni Controluce, Nardò. 216 pp 8) Heip C., Hummel H., van Avesaath P., Appeltans W., Arvanitidis C., Aspden R., Austen M., Boero F., Bouma TJ., Boxshall G., Buchholz F., Crowe T., Delaney A., Deprez,T., Emblow C., Feral JP., Gasol JM., Gooday A., Harder J., Ianora A., Kraberg A., Mackenzie B., Ojaveer H., Paterson D., Rumohr H., Schiedek D., Sokolowski A., Somerfield P., Sousa Pinto I., Vincx M., Węsławski JM., Nash R. 2009. Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Printbase, Dublin, Ireland, 91 pp. ISSN 2009- 2539 9) Boero F., A. Gennari, F. Tresca, A. Miglietta. 2010. La Biodiversità Marina e il Funzionamento degli Ecosistemi. CASPUR Cyber Publishing, Roma, eISBN 978-886561-003-9 10) Bazairi H, Ben Haj S, Boero F, Cebrian D, De Juan S, Limam A, Lleonart J, Torchia, G, Rais C., 2010. The Mediterranean Sea Biodiversity: state of the ecosystems, pressures, impacts and future priorities. Ed. UNEP-MAP RAC/SPA, Tunis. 100 pp. 11) Boero F. 2012. Economia senza natura. La grande truffa. Codice Editore, Torino. 214 pp 12) Boero F. 2013. Review of jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. GFCM Studies and Reviews 92: 53 pp. 13) Arnaud S, Arvanitidis C, Azollini R, Austen M, Balguerias E, Boero F, Boyen C, Boetius A, Buckley P, Calewaert J, Canals M, Chu N, Cook R, Danovaro R, Denègre J, Dupont S, Ekebom J, Freiwald A, Fritz J, Hammer C, Heip C, Henriet JP, Héral M, Heussner S, Koster F, Kraus G, Lampadariou N, Larkin K, Lemoine L, Loeng H, McDonough N, Nolte N, Olsen E, Olsen J, Philippart K, Queguiner B, Ramirez-Llodra E, Roest W, Santos R, Seys J, Sluijs A, Solidoro C, Souza Pinto I, Steenbergen J, Stomsem K, Sultan N, Tyler P, van den Hove S, van Hoof L, Vanreusel A, Viard F, Volckaert F, Wallmann K, Weaver P, Wood J, Wood L. 2013. Navigating the Future IV. Position Paper 20 of the European Marine Board, Ostend, Belgium. 203 pp. ISBN: 9789082093100 14) Thiede J, Aksnes D, Bathmann U, Betti M, Boero F, Boxshall G, Cury P, Dowell M, Emmerson R, Estrada M, Fine M, Grigelis A, Herman P, Herndl G, Kuparinen J, Martinsohn JT, Prášil O, Serrão Santos R, Soomere T, Synolakis C. 2016. Marine Sustainability in an age of changing oceans and seas. EASAC policy report 28, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 52 pp. http://www.interacademies.net/File.aspx?id=29455